Programming stories
Software engineering is the backbone of Hacker News. This topic covers programming languages, frameworks, databases, developer tooling, and the craft of building reliable systems at scale.
From language design debates to database internals and CI/CD practices, these stories reflect what working engineers care about. Birbla keeps a running archive so you can revisit discussions that aged well.
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RSS feed for ProgrammingPrompting Claude Opus 5.5
platform.claude.com · 36 points · 172 comments
AlloyDB's new agentic database architecture
cloud.google.com · 4 points · 1 comments
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)
inkandswitch.com · 3 points · 37 comments
An OpenAI-compatible, model-agnostic agent API
rebyte.ai · 2 points · 0 comments
Rust for C# and .NET developers guide by Microsoft
microsoft.github.io · 4 points · 8 comments
OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields
swarmcha.se · 5 points · 83 comments
What do you do now as a software engineer?
4 points · 7 comments
New Boeing 737 MAX Software Glitch Could Disrupt Navigation Feature
wsj.com · 4 points · 0 comments
CaughtShipping – curfew app for developers, enforced by a public wall
caughtshipping.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Sixb, a TypeScript ontology framework for modeling your domain
docs.sixb.ai · 2 points · 1 comments
Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC
righto.com · 6 points · 11 comments
Improving site performance by shipping more CSS
github.blog · 12 points · 69 comments
CEO of Mistral: AI is software. It can be controlled
lemonde.fr · 40 points · 165 comments
How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
discourse.haskell.org · 17 points · 332 comments
Evolving programming languages in the AI era
twitter.com · 3 points · 2 comments
FTC chair suggests AI developers should be liable for conduct of agents
reuters.com · 12 points · 21 comments
Accelerated Out of Core Shuffling
quasiben.github.io · 7 points · 0 comments
The stupidity and arrogance of GNOME developers
felipec.wordpress.com · 7 points · 14 comments
Time Measurement in Game Programming
asawicki.info · 6 points · 0 comments
LM Studio Bionic with Python?
2 points · 1 comments
Supreme Court permits states to use SAVE database for citizenship checks
cyberscoop.com · 38 points · 100 comments
Aslmp, an async Python SLMP client for Mitsubishi MELSEC PLCs
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Paper-docx – agent-native Python-docx fork with 78% fewer DOCX failures
github.com · 6 points · 0 comments
How Trump Is Building a National Citizenship Database to Check Voters
nytimes.com · 7 points · 0 comments
Choreoglyphs – our new, invisible writing system
choreoglyphs.com · 5 points · 2 comments
Anyone else's OpenAI and Claude API keys mysteriously leaked last night?
2 points · 1 comments
OpenAI $500 ProMax plan listed in API
5 points · 48 comments
Plan Mode Is Dead
aymannadeem.com · 4 points · 495 comments
Evolving programming languages in the AI era
dashbit.co · 3 points · 97 comments
China's new travel rules unsettle tech giants and talent
dw.com · 8 points · 3 comments